Word: resins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jumps ahead of its competitors, Victor fondly believed that its vinyl resin plastics were the biggest thing in records since Soprano Emma Albani first cut Angels Ever Bright and Fair in 1903. But Victor is going slow. Till Eulenspiegel will be released Oct. 15, and it will be followed by only as many plastic albums as the public demands...
...land had bred a human race tolerant and amused. Now the Provencals joined in with the invaders to drive the German from their land. Along the shore among groves of cork oak, on the hills where pines tinged the air with the clean smell of resin, Frenchmen fought alongside the swiftly advancing troops of Major General Alexander M. (for McCarrell) Patch, U.S. commander of the Allied Seventh Army...
...used to put a lusterless coating (which must be renewed from time to time) on blue serge and to impregnate wool so that it achieves a durable crease when pressed under heat. To make wool shrink-proof, Powers first wets it to open the fibers, then injects a resin inside the hollowed fibers. This stiffens the tiny, fuzzy barbs that stick out of the side of a woolen fiber and prevents the barbs from interlocking - the cause of shrinkage...
Developed by the Hercules Powder Co., which worked on the problem for many years, the new method involves a powdered resin called Stabinol. The powder is spread on the soil, a few pounds per square yard; then it is harrowed in six inches deep and the soil is packed hard with a steam roller. The result is a smooth, dry surface that sheds water like a duck's back. It is good for tennis courts, athletic fields, earth dams-and especially for roads. The Army has already begun to use it for roads and airfields...
...tree sap, the powder is a cheap (less than $5,000 per mile of 40-ft. road), quick road-builder. It works something like sizing in coated paper; a mixture of about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that...